In this review the occurrence of the infantile malnutrition was quantified by the pre-scholars children of the different ecosystems of Amazonas state in the last decade. They were just included the data of scientific papers that adopted as diagnosis parameter OMS criteria (1986) and NCHS pattern (1977). The population was represented by 4,030 pre-school children, whom 1.751 native of the metropolitan area of Manaus (Amazonas) and 2.279 of the rural area. It was evidenced as main manifestation of the malnutrition the growth deficit, reaching 17% and 23% of the children of the urban and rural areas, respectively. There was emphasis for Negro river ecosystem as the one of larger nutritional precariousness, which 35% of these children presented H/I (height/age) inappropriate index, followed by the children of the calhas of Amazonas and Purus (21%) and Madeira (16%) rivers. This means to say that these children were submitted to needs process of long-lived. It was verified in all the cities of the rural area, a relative protection of the children to suffer from malnutrition in the first year of their lives. By the results it becomes evident that the children of the rural area of Amazonas presented the largest nutritional precariousness specially, of those residents in Negro river ecosystem. These results also evidence the heterogeneity of the Amazonian, what should be meditated when of the carrying out of programs of alimentary safety and/or implantation of politics of sustainable development.
Malnutrition; Pre-school children; Amazonian ecosystems
